On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:07:30PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > I'm an upstream maintainer of gimp-print, and I'm also in the NM > queue. I know that gimp-print has quite a set of build-dependencies, > and I have reduced them a bit (by removing the SGML stuff by using the > upstream tarball with prebuilt docs). Also, I guess you are depending > on libgimpprint via gs.
Yes, the dependency through gs was what caused me real pain. It was one of the longest dependecy chains I ever saw ;) What is causing problems is usually not the number of dependencies, but long chains and loops. > I want to remove the gimpprint gs driver, and replace it with an IJS > driver instead (basically IJS is a protocol to allow gs to use other > programs as drivers, communicating via pipes). Once IJS is in Debian, > I can create the ijsgimpprint package, and ask Torsten to remove the > gimp-print patch from gs. This sounds very good. Isolation like this helps us a lot. > Unfortunately, I haven't found a sponsor to upload my IJS packages (or I am very busy for the next few weeks, but if I can still help in november or so, I'm glad to. Otherwise I hope someone beats me to the punch here. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/
